[sclug] Personal Web server

[Will Dickson]

David Given wrote:
> 
> Well, lighttpd, thttpd and apache all run on Unix, Windows and MacOS --- are
> those the three operating systems you're interested in?

Based on my experience, Apache (at least, Ubuntu's packaging thereof) is 
a lot more newbie-friendly to configure (at least, the basics are) than 
one might think. Surprisingly light, too.

Alternatively, since you're after cross-platform, how 'bout a Java 
web-server? If you're familiar with Apache, Tomcat might be the answer 
(although last time I looked, it had so much Web-Applications foo bolted 
onto it that I completely failed to get the hang of it.) We use Jetty,
(http://jetty.mortbay.org) which embeds rather nicely. (Well, version 5 
does; version 6 is has a completely different API which I've yet to get 
to grips with, so I can't comment there.)

HTH

Will.